Potato sacker



June 7, 1932. D. H. PAISLEY 1,862,424

POTATO SACKER Filed Nov. 8, 1930 5 sheets sheet l TTTTTT EV June 7, 1932. D, H FQAISLEY 1,862,424

POTATO SACKER Filed Nov. 8, 1950 a SheetS -Sheet 2 ATTORNEY June 7, 1932. D, H, PMSL 1,862,424

POTATO SACKEH Filed NOV. 8, 1930 3 Sheets-Sheet 3 26 275 15 Pazls'lqg,

INVENTOR ATTORNEY Patented June 7, 1932 DEAN H. PAISLEY, F CAMBRIDGE, NEBRASKA POTATO SAGKER Application filed November 8, 1930. Serial No. 494,391.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in hoppers primarily designed for the filling of sacks and the like.

One of the principal objects of the invention consists of a hopper of this character having a support to sustain same in decided lane.

Another object of the invention conte1nplates the provision and arrangement of a swingabl-y supported end wall for the lowermost inclined end of the hopper including a bag support.

More specifically stated the bag support a is provided with adjustable means to facilitate accomodation of the diiierent sizes and shapes of bags.

With the above and other objects in view, the invention further consists of the follow- .ing novel features and details of construction, to be hereinafter more fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings and pointed out in the appended claim.

In the drawings Figure 1 is a fragmentary side elevation of the present invention.

Figure 2 is a View similar to Figure 1 showing the end wall and bag support retracted.

Figure 3 is a top plan View of the invention.

Figure 4 is a fragmentary top plan view of the invention with the end wall retracted.

Figure 5 is an end elevation of the in- .vention.

Figure 6 is a longitudinal sectional view taken on line 66 of Figure 3 through the end wall as extended for use.

Figure 7 is a detail sectional view taken through appropriate portions of the hopper 0 and support and particularly illustrative of the connection established therebetween.

Referring to the drawings in detail wherein like characters of reference denote cor responding parts, the reference characters 10 Sand 11 indicate the forward and rear, short and long standards of my hopper support having staves or brace members 12 connected terminally therewith and disposed in intersecting relation, substantially as illustrated in Figures 1 and 5 of the drawings. A plate member 13, carried by and angularly disposed betwecn the standards, is designed for abutting engagement with the bottom wall 14: of the hopper 15. Bendable securing means 16 carried by the hopper upon the bot- 5 tom wall thereof is extended around and about an appropriate portion of one of the terminal connections for the plate member 13 upon the support, substantially as illustrated in Figure 7 of the drawings. As may be- 69 gathered from anunderstanding of the illustrations of my invention in Figures 1, 3 and 5 of the drawings, the height of the hopper side walls are gradually increased toward the lowermost inclined end thereof and inwardly to provide a restricted discharge trough or sluice 17. An end wall 18, hingedly mounted for swinging movement, as at 19, upon the bottom wall of the hopper .adjacent the lowermost inclined end thereof, has side members 20 designed for overlapping relation with the side walls of the trough or sluice 17 as shown in Figure 2 of the drawings when the aforementioned end wall is retracted to occupy an inoperative position. Said end wall is furthermore provided with a discharge opening 21 sufficiently spaced from the hinge connection 19 whereby said opening will be disposed an appreciable distance above the lowermost inclined end and bo-t- 30 tom wall of the hopper when the end wall is retracted to obviate premature dispensing or loss of the commodities to be sacked from I the hopper.

Bag or sack engaging portions 22 of substantially U-shape formation ca "ried by and depending from a flange 23 skirting the dis- 7 charge opening 21, are designed for insertion. within the necks of bags, sacks or other receptacles and for frictional engagement therewith whereby the bag neck will be held open to receive the commodities discharged through the opening 21. The members 23 are stationary and three in numben It is also my purpose to provide means of adjustment whereby sacks, bags or other receptacles of different sizes may be accommodated to equal effect. In accomplishing this end,

I provide a shaft member 2 1 journaled within diametrically opposite portions of the depending flange 23 and adjacent the forward or outermost end of the discharge opening 21 and which has mounted for rocking motion therewith a frame structure 25 eX- posing a depending portion corresponding in shape to the members 22 to facilitate engaging of the remaining portion of the sack, bag or other form of receptacle. The upper portion 26 of the frame member 25 is designed for employment as adeflector or stop for the commodity gravitating through the hopper and lowered end wall. A hand wheel 27 is carried upon one end of the shaft 24 outwardly and beyond one of the side walls 20 whereby shifting of the frame member 25 from the full to the dotted line positions shown in Figure 1 of the drawings may be facilitated to accommodate the invention to the different sizes of bags or other receptacles. A torsion spring 28, carried by the shaft 2 1, has portions thereof fixedly engaged with the shaft and the end wall 18 and to yieldingly induce the frame 25 to occupy the full line positions shown in Figures 1 and 6 of the drawings whereby accidental displacement of the receptacle will be obviated.

Retractile springs 29 carried by the frame structure or support are eccentrically connected at opposite sides of the end wall 18 beyond the hinge connection 19 to sustain the end wall in either of the two positions shown in Figures 1 and 2 when shifted sligh ly beyond dead center. From the foregoing, it will be noted that it will be necessary to restrict downward swinging movement of the end wall 18 whereby the latter may be disposed in the same plane with the bottom wall of the hopper in order that the different commodities may be expeditiously dispensed and packaged. I therefore employ a bracket member 30 suitably arranged upon the under side of the end wall 18 and extended rearwardly an appreciable distance beyond the hinge connection 19 therefor for engagement with the under side of the hopper bottom wall 14 and of sufficient strength to withstand the tension of the springs 29 and the weight of the commodities capable of being dispensed from the hopper.

In actual practice, the particular commodity to be packaged is first measured and as to quantity precedent to discharge within the hopper. The end wall 18 normally occupies the Figure 2 position and the bag, sack or other receptacle is accordingly applied. The end wall is then shifted to occupy the Figure 1 position and the commodity will then gravitate toward and through the opening 23 within the neck of the receptacle. Being that the members 22 are arranged upon the outer side of the flange 28 and that the frame 25 is disposed wholly within the opening 21, the upper marginal edges of the receptacle may be disposed in telescopic association therewith to obviate spilling or loss of the material, however fine it may be.

The invention is susceptible of various changes in its form, proportions and minor details of construction and the right is herein reserved to make such changes as properly fall within the scope of the appended claim.

Having described the invention, what is claimed is:

A sacking device comprising a support having a hopper angularly arranged thereon, an end wall hingedly mounted at the discharge end of the hopper having an opening therein, stationary receptacle supporting members carried by and projecting from the wall about said opening, an adjustable frame member upon the wall cooperating with the receptacle supporting members in the accommodating of receptacles of different sizes and shapes, and yieldably operable means for retaining the wall against accidental displacement when shifted to occupy retracted and extended positions.

In testimony whereof I a-fiix my signature.

DEAN H. PAISLEY. 

